Live Thread: Bucks @ Cavs
2017-11-07
Well, here are your Cleveland Cavaliers, fresh off a loss to the now 2-8 Atlanta Hawks. The Cavs stand at an underwhelming 4-6 record and face off against one of their primary challengers to the Eastern Conference throne. The Milwaukee Bucks’s record isn’t much better at just 4-5 but have not quite put on the same “How Not to Play Defense” clinic that the Cavs have. The first time these two teams faced off LeBron and Co. decided to actually show up, beating the Bucks 116 to 97. That was back when the Cavs actually played the slightest bit of defense.
Today’s Cavaliers huddle in the corner of the League with a defensive rating of 111.7, good for last. They will need to improve that tonight as LeBron’s successor, Giannis Antetokounmpo, looks to recover from their last loss to The Land. The Alphabet has been an utter nightmare around the league, averaging 31.0 ppg, 9.9 rpg, and 5.0 apg. That is an MVP quality line. Shoddy defense won’t bring it down any. This has led to some discontent within the locker room, which King of Social Media James supposedly is illustrating with cartoons on his Instagram.
A post shared by LeBron James (@kingjames) on Nov 6, 2017 at 7:07pm PST
Milwaukee will be feeling confident after trading the all but forgotten Greg Monroe and a first and second round pick for the maligned PG Eric Bledsoe. Luckily for the Cavs, Bledsoe won’t be able to participate tonight. Another bit of good news is that the Cavs have only lost to bad teams this season. Will the Cavs rise to the challenge yet again and bring their A-game against these Eastern Conference foes? Will the Cavs end up “Fearing the Deer” in route to another embarrassing bludgeoning? Hopefully the latter is true. As always, Go Cavs!
Rose is garbage.
Derrick Rose continues to suck!
Rose is brutal…
Mood…
Bucks are jumpy tonight. Glad to the cavs are taking advantage and getting them in serious foul trouble
Wow. Bucks biting on every pump fake.
Keep getting th e ball to love. He’s hot.
Henson mood…
Greek freak needs to be doubled
Gianiss just has video game moves in the post sometimes…
Derrick Rose is not fun to watch.
Fun dies in his gravitational pull….
a henson-bird!
Love working again.
No offense movement…guess that first qtr was short lived
Bucks are over playing passing lanes like crazy. Need to cut backdoor.
Bad couple sequences, bad turnover by JR, and bad miscue on that Henson oop.
There goes the lead!
Sloppy…
Mood…
Man… bad mistake by Crowder
Ugh.
Middleton on fire lately…cavs bench not running much of an offense…lue literally replaced 70% of lineup at that time out….not good lineup or one those guys feel comfortable with
not enough shooters for Rose and wade to be effective
ill be honest i’m a huge fan of lebron sitting down this long. this literally never happened last yeaer
Yeah well he’s fourth in minutes played this year, so Lue needs to do a better job.
he keeps playing whole second halves i guess, but if lue can duplicate this rest in the 2nd half of every other game it’ll go a long way
Rose get ball, Rose shoot ball
10% assist percentage…really stupid with Lebron on the court…
and this is when our lack of a useable point guard kills us
The Bucks freed Liggins…
Truly hate the one on four drives by Rose…
Good d by green on the fadeaway two. Tip your cap.
X2
I would rather see Zz than Shump in the game. Lue back to his crap rotations.
Bucks are dangerous, since Giannis can just go off, but they are still a bit lacking…not exactly sure what they’re missing other than a couple better players…
Bledsoe…
Bledsoe will help them, but think they really need a Korver, or someone like that…
They need a Shump ;)
they have the same problem we have. not enough shooters, and their shooters aren’t shooting well yet
Yeah, likely that’s it…shooting, and they need a bit more depth…
They need some vets.
Weird lineup but odd there’s no offense being run…every thing is one on one
The Wade, rose, Shump, Korver, Green lineup odd but not awful. Like the energy at least.
The “Just about washed up” all stars.
???
Mood…
Don’t like Green at all without Lebron…well, I don’t like him much with Lebron, but he’s passable as long as he stays away from the stupid stuff…
He has played well defensively and had a great transition deflection in that Korver to.
Great transition d by green off the Korver to.
What is green doing?! Like what was that?
Man… you gotta finish that Green… smh
5TH GRADE CYO BASKETBALL—DON’T JUMP IN THE AIR TO MAKE A PASS —GEEZ
omg please more korver. that dude could average 20 a game off our bench this year if we just get him the shots
This is kind of a fools gold line up without Green, Rose, and Shump.
“With” — stupid iPhone
DRose with the jump pass to nowhere…
Actually a decent defensive play by Shump…
Wade tiptoes the baseline for two
Rose
POST-UP-ZUS!
dwayne hasn’t heard of fools gold apparently. long two’s don’t fall for 4 quarters man.
La Blanca no Flama
Wade chucking. Thankfully he made two.
Is George Gervin in a submarine?
Vintage Wade…
Mood…
Smell with a tough finish past two guys rotating down.
Rose with not awful D tonight.
Bad turnovers though.
La Flama Wade!
WOULD BE AN ENJOYABLE SERIES—-MAN HOPING SWISH IS BACK TO BEING SWISH—–HUGE—–NOW WE NEED CROWDER TO BE CONSISTENT ON HIS CORNER 3 ‘S
Dwade with a no no no.. Yes! Shot.
X2
I would enjoy a playoff series between these two teams. Only two interesting teams in the East.
Hey! A sub 30 point quarter for the opposition…
Mood…
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39 points AND we held the team under 30??? what a turnaround!
Nice quarter there on pace for 150
The Bucks just gave up a 39 point first quarter. Where have I seen that before?
1ST TEAM TO 150 –WINS
Engage La flama blanca
Mood…
La Flama Blanca!
dude…alphabet just took 5 steps. 5.
Two for one?
Cavs could use TT to counter the freak tonight
you know what one thing has actually improved from last season so far? our friggin free throws
How many steps?
Wonder if Cavs can actually keep a team from scoring 30 in a first quarter…
They have looked much better defensively. That last foul for Giannis was a little questionable imo.
Oh good… Shump is back…
Mood…
?☔️?
Ugh here comes Shump
Middleton and Alphabet just pulled off their version of The Kraken…
teletovic tried to get love pregnant defending that one goodness
Smart to try and make them pay putting Teletovic on Love…